Skill built 

● Planning: Insight, evaluations and decisions, flight plan, axes, drift, height, land 
marks 
● Pre-flight check 
● Mental state and stress level awareness, techniques to lower stress  
● Take-off: Canopy raising and control, stop-line/decision, acceleration, liftoff, clearing 
terrain, transition to sitting position 
● Shallow turns: Visual check, gentle to medium bank, drift correction 
● Approach: Setting relative to terrain and wind, types of approach, hands up, straight 
final, overcoming gradient with speed 
● Landing: Aiming towards a preset area, hands up and braking 
● After landing: Checking traffic, leaving landing for next pilots 
● Ground handling: Glider control while staying on the ground

Knowledge given

Pilot 
● Physical factors: fitness and exhaustion, hydration, food, skin and eye protection, 
alcohol and drugs 
● Psychological factors: Identify and lower stress, identify and express emotions 
● Pilot in command: Responsibilities, abilities, necessity to complete any started flight 
Aircraft
● Glider handling: Axes, speed control, slow flight 
● Harness tuning: Fixing harness position and comfort 
● Safety equipment: Emergency parachute, hook knife 
● Equipment care 
Aerodynamics 
● Drift: Head or tail wind, crabbing, corrections in turns, penetration 
● Stall: Description, in wind and lift gradients, dangers, recognition, avoidance and recovery 
● Driving forces: On the ground: by running, in the air: weight (gravity) 
● Lift: Axes, difference in pressure from aerofoil, airspeed, angle of attack 
● Drag: Increasing with airspeed and angle of attack 
Meteorology 
● Wind: Meteorological wind, at take-off, in landing and along the flight path, 
indicators, gradient 
● Local conditions: Terrain effects, valley, Venturi effect, obstructions, corners, rotors 
● Turbulence, gusts - Mechanical: Wind speed gradient, wake of glider or obstacle, lee, rotor - Shear: Mountain shape, gradient, inversion layer, catabatic flow - Thermal: Mixing of air zones, gradient, combination with wind 
Rules 
● Local and site(s) 
● Right of way rules: Crossing, slope, thermals, aircraft categories priorities 
● National Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association 

Safety
● Flight planning: Process, information, observation, evaluation, decision, execution 
● Flying exercises: Description, aim, procedures, execution, errors and dangers

Experience gained

- 4 days of flying

- 10 flights achieved

P2 Exam and practicals

- Independent take off ,flight path and landing demonstrated

- Theoretical exam cleared